The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-19
iK3rSn vflH WORLD on 4 BICYCLE.
I'I:nrr:,~ stevens G'ra,eI> Far, and Sees
Many Strange. scenes and People.

! TI:ur:r:ls stevens travels Far, and Sees
Nla:.y strange scenes and People.
The world has been girdled by a
bicvclc. In american has brought a
new Arabian Nights tale to the city OF
Haroun al Raschid, and a fresh wonder
story to the nursery books. a young
man from the little village Of Turney,
BIO. Mr. Thomas Stevens, started from
San E'rancifco at o'clock on the morn
| inc OF April -, 1881, to go around the
world on his bicycle. He has just arrived
in San Francisco, after spinning about
TIE whirling globe for two years and
eight months. He went as special dele
date TO all nations OF the prosperous
magazine, Outing.
Mr.. Stevens wheeled across the Sierras
through snow sheds, tunnels, canons,
along precipices and around mountains
where he heard the roaring of the snow
slides and found the peaks covered with
thirty feet Of snow, Then over the
desert of Nevada, with its mirages, where
no birds were visible and little shining
lizards were the only living things; LOW
calling on the Piutes, now aiming shot at
mountain lion, then riding by the clear
moonlight through the Rockies; next
crossing Utah, swimming in the Salt
Lake, chatting with pretty Mormon
maiden, riding past the castellated rocks
OF Green River, and slowly crossing the
red desert. Then going through Ne
braska and Iowa, past e communlstlc
community of -, 600 happy people, with
30, O00 acres of rich land, with towns
and factories. So on through Illinois.
Indiana, Ohio, Northern Pennsylvania,
New York and Massachusetts,. At 2
o'clock in the afternoon of August 4 he
caught sight Of the spires of Boston. He
had crossed the continent in 1O3! days
and had travelled 3, 700 miles.
Mr.. Stevens rested in New York dur
ING the winter, and in the spring of
1885 sailed, with his bicycle, for Liver
pool to take up the thread of travel that
he was going TO lie about the world. He
sailed on the City Of Chicago with two
slips OF bicycler's paper-one to paste on
the Chinese wall and one on the cliffs OF
the kybeer Pass.
On May ,, 1855, he started from Edge
Hill Church, Liverpool, to wheel across
the vast continents Of Europe and Asia.
He wheeled 800 miles to London, meet
ing at a bicycle tournament on the way
7Irior Knox Holmes, who had recently
taken spin OF ia miles in ten hours.
Crossing to D;eppe on Channel steam
er he wheeled through Normandy, down
the valley Of tie Seine, passed noble
chateaus and ruins, till, on May Is, he
saw the Arch of Triumph and entered
Paris; then by vineyards down the val
lcrs OF the Maine and Moselle to Nancy,
and through German Lorraine to Stras
burg, through the Black Forest to
Munich, where he tipped a student of
the university under the impression that
he Was a waiter. Through Austria,
where he met man who spoke English,
but had never before met anyone else
who spoke that tongue; through Hun
gary, where rows Of women were work
ing in the fields under overseers like
blacks in the South in the days Of
slavery; through Seryia and Bulgaria,
and through Turkey, where the Turks
we're delighted with his bicycle, and a
pasha had a Turk play ''Yankee Doodle"
On harp for him. He arrived in Con-
stantinople July 2, 1885, two months
after leaving liverpool.
Pushing on through Asiatic Turkey
and Persia, the plucky American arrived
at Teheran il November, 1885, when the
winter came and he had to stop till
spring in the Turkish capital. He then
started to go through southern Siberia
and northern China. The Russians re-
fused him passports. He tried to go
through AfghaDistan. The Russians
objected He started to go anyhow.
The Russians stopped him. He wheeled
back to Constantinopie, took a trip to
Calcutta, and rode through India and
southern China. He rode through
China last fall. Mobs Of superstitious
Cinnamon mobbcd him as the devil on
wheels, and he reached Shanghai sur
rounded by Chinese military escort.
Then he took q spin across Japan and
had finished his journey. He sailed from
Toxic to San francisco. He travelled
about 10000 miles on his bicycle, which
is al ordinary road machine.